Afterpage vs Papyr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Afterpage
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Afterpage is a home for the documents you don't want to lose. Receipts, deeds, warranties, insurance policies, medical records, tax paperwork, the stuff that used to live in a shoebox or a drawer now lives in one place, organized the way you think about it, and easy to find the next time you need it. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Give a document a tag, a category, or a contact, and it's filed. Name them and color them, and Afterpage keeps track of what you use most so your Home tag or your Taxes 2025 category shows up right when you need it. There's no folder structure to fight with. A tag can connect to other tags, categories, or documents on its own terms, so your Yellowstone Road Trip tag can pull in the Vehicles category without forcing everything into a rigid hierarchy. FIND ANYTHING, FAST Search isn't stuck in one tab. Open your household documents, a warranty folder, or a single contact, and search right there. Afterpage reads the text off every page you scan or import, so a search for "Alitalia" finds the flight confirmation even if you never typed that word into a tag. Results are ranked by relevance, so the document you want shows up first. GET DOCUMENTS IN, THREE WAYS Scan a document with the built-in camera, import a PDF or image from Files, or share it in from Mail, Safari, or Photos without leaving the app. Afterpage stitches multi-page scans into one PDF and reads the text automatically, whether it's a scanned page or an emailed invoice that already has text in it. NO ACCOUNTS. NO CLOUD BUT YOURS. There's no sign-up, no login screen, nothing to remember a password for. Afterpage syncs your documents through your own iCloud account, the same way Photos and Files do. We don't run a server that stores your documents, because we don't need one. FREE TO START You can keep up to 20 documents for free, with tags, categories, contacts, search, and iCloud sync all included. When you need more room, Afterpage Pro lets you keep as many documents as you like. Pro also lets you pick a custom icon for a tag or category, add a background image behind it so your Disney World 2026 folder can look like your trip, and use smart features like title cleanup. Pro is available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. If your subscription ends, you can still open, search, share, and export every document you've added. Afterpage isn't a scanner and it isn't an editor. It's where your documents go after that, organized, searchable, and yours. -- Privacy Policy: https://afterpage.app/privacy Terms of Service (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Papyr
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Papyr is a document scanner built around one idea: your documents are yours. No accounts. No cloud uploads. No tracking. No ads. No subscriptions. Everything stays on your iPhone and iPad. Start free with up to 10 documents, 5 pages each, and OCR text preview. Upgrade once to Papyr Pro ($9.99 lifetime) for full text access, search, unlimited documents, and more. ā SCAN ANYTHING ā ⢠Auto edge detection finds your document instantly ⢠Manual crop with 4-corner precision adjustment ⢠Multi-page documents with up to 20 pages per scan ⢠Works with receipts, contracts, notes, IDs, whiteboards, and more ā FIND TEXT IN ANY SCAN ā ⢠On-device OCR extracts text from every scan automatically ⢠Preview extracted text on any scan ā unlock full text with Pro ⢠Search across all your documents by keyword (Pro) ⢠Copy text directly from scanned pages (Pro) ⢠Works in multiple languages ā ORGANIZE YOUR WAY ā ⢠Name, rename, and reorder documents and pages ⢠Grid or list view ā your choice ⢠Drag to rearrange pages within a document ⢠Delete or re-scan individual pages ⢠Color-coded folders to group your scans (Pro) ā EXPORT & SHARE ā ⢠One-tap PDF export for any document ⢠Share via AirDrop, Mail, Messages, or any app ⢠Save to Files for full control ⢠Password-protect PDFs before sharing (Pro) ⢠No watermarks ā ever ā BUILT FOR PRIVACY ā ⢠Zero third-party SDKs or analytics ⢠Zero network requests ā works completely offline ⢠All processing happens on your device ⢠No account required ā just open and scan ⢠Apple's "Data Not Collected" privacy label ā BUILT WITH CARE ā ⢠Native Swift/SwiftUI ā fast, smooth, and feels like it belongs on your iPhone ⢠Supports Light Mode, Dark Mode, and System ⢠VoiceOver accessible ⢠Works on iPhone and iPad ā PAPYR PRO ($9.99 ONE-TIME) ā ⢠Full OCR text extraction + copy ⢠Search across all documents by text ⢠Unlimited documents and 20-page scans ⢠Folders, batch scanning, photo import ⢠Password-protected PDF export Other scanners charge $4.99/month. Papyr Pro is one payment ā yours forever. Try Papyr free ā scan your first documents and see how a scanner should work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Afterpage at every 5 days against Papyr's every 2 months. Papyr's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Afterpage sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Papyr sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Afterpage ships an update every 5 days, Papyr every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Afterpage | Papyr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days ā better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Douglas | Montrell Cruse |
In-app purchases
Afterpage
- Afterpage Plus$2.991 Month
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Afterpage Plus$19.991 Year
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- Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$69.99
Papyr
- Papyr Pro$9.99









